Inside GB Boxing with Rob McCracken
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
How does GB Boxing’s Rob McCracken reflect on the disappointment of Paris 2024? A year on, Buncey sits down with the performance director to explore what went wrong and how preparations for LA 2028 are already in motion. He also hears from hopeful's Chantelle Reid and Odel Kamara, who will to compete at the inaugural World Boxing Championships in Liverpool in September.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Five Live Boxing. |
| 0:09.2 | Nice change of pace this week. |
| 0:11.1 | Now, the Olympics in Paris finished one year ago. |
| 0:14.4 | Two medals for GB boxers. |
| 0:16.4 | It was a hard games. |
| 0:17.8 | It was an even harder draw. |
| 0:19.8 | It's a good time to head up to the GB headquarters |
| 0:22.2 | in Sheffield to sit down with the boss Robert McCracken because in early September for the first |
| 0:28.4 | time ever the men's and women's world amateur boxing championships will take place in Britain. |
| 0:33.8 | They're going to be in Liverpool and Rob's named his squad. |
| 0:40.0 | It's a sacred place, the GB centre in Sheffield. |
| 0:44.9 | It's filled with Dreamers in the gym, and the walls are packed with Olympic medalists. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm going to go up there now, turn left, walk through the rings, and sit down with Rob. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Steve Bunce, and this is Five Live Boxing. |
| 0:58.3 | Rob, thanks for your time. |
| 1:00.7 | You've just named a 16 man and woman squad. |
| 1:03.5 | A couple of veterans in there, Charlie Davison, who's been at two Olympics. |
| 1:04.1 | She's in there. |
| 1:08.7 | Chantelle Reid is back after being in her primary school and decided that she could still chase her dream and Olympic dream. |
| 1:11.1 | But a lot of young talent. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm in this gym here and I recognise a dozen faces. |
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